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mdwrigh2
on Oct 25, 2015
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Finding UI crashes by fuzzing input events with am...
For those of you writing Android apps, this is essentially what the monkey[1] tool is for.
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http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html
tedmielczarek
on Oct 26, 2015
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The difference here is that AFL is not just banging on the keyboard at random--it's doing a guided search to find inputs that change the program state in interesting ways. This is more likely to find bugs in a finite amount of time.
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[1]: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html